um. yes.. my apologies. I'm writing this on a few glasses of wine.
So yes, I had 6 hours of classes today: Public Law (Constitution), Contract Law and Common Law Reasoning & Institutions (the English legal system)... all of them with very English professors, all very Cambridge. much talk about past students and current Law Lords (funny the coincidience of that....)I am extremely glad I'm here. The professors are excellent and are giving loads of good exam pointers. I'm still massively worried about exams, but I'm using my free time to try arrange a plan of attack for when I return. Also, the girl I met yesterday from Hong Kong is going to give me a bunch of taped lectures from U of L teachers who have come out to HK for revision sessions. Fingers crossed that actually happens. She's become a fast friend of mine, and its nice to have someone to sit with!
At lunch I took off on my own into the closest part of Cambridge proper I can reach, went to the University Center and found a pie shop to eat. Scoped out a few places I want to visit on my free day. Ran into Cynthia (HK girl) and some others so ate my pie at the restaurant they were eating at (and felt quite good about the 2.50 I'd spent compared to their 10).After class there was a reception and welcome dinner. The reception was rather awkward, all the students kind of standing around, not sure what to do.
The dinner was far better - the wine was flowing and the food kept comming. Also, one of the Cambridge professors came an sat across from me - a fairly young guy, been a professor for 6 years. I asked him all sorts of questions and he seemed to enjoy the anwers, though they were all very british. He actually spoke out of the side of his mouth and fixed his hair every two minutes. Go figure. Anyway, the dinner was very nice, and for those that are interested, I ate mushrooms. Yes, I, Lauren Lynne Elliott, ate mushrooms. I don't know what to say except manners kicked in? (it was gross, for the record). The head of Cambridge Faculty of Law gave us a welcome speach and it was very cute and funny.Tomorrow is a very long day for me - lectures from 9am - 9pm with a 2 hour break for lunch. I suspect I'll be tired. The rooms are so hot and the lecturer's so monotoned I have struggled a few times to stay awake today: hopefully I can fix this for tomorrow?
1 comment:
you lucky cow! i'd have loved to have done oriental studies at cambridge but my results were too crap and i never applied anyhow (hmmm!)
lovely blog though ... all the best with your time there. cambridge is such a lovely town
ps ever been to strawberry fayre?
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